Medicare (Mis)management

"Medicare (Mis)management"

The phone rings and the lady of the house
answers, "Hello"?

"Mrs. Walker, please."

"Speaking."

"Mrs. Walker, this is Doctor Jones at the
Medical Testing Laboratory. When your
doctor sent your husband's biopsy to the
lab yesterday, a biopsy from another Mr.
Walker arrived as well, and we are now
uncertain which one is your husband's.
Frankly the results are either bad or terrible."

"What do you mean?" Mrs. Walker asks
nervously.

"Well, one of the specimens tested positive
for Alzheimer's and the other one tested
positive for AIDS. We can't tell which is
your husband's."

"That's dreadful! Can't you do the test again?"
questioned Mrs. Walker.

"Normally we can, but Medicare will only pay
for these expensive tests one time."

"Well, what am I supposed to do now?"
asked Mrs. Walker.

"The people at Medicare recommend that
you drop your husband off somewhere in
the middle of town. If he finds his way
home, don't sleep with him!"
Received on Fri Apr 7 09:51:36 2006